From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Tue Sep 2 15:14:15 2008 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:14:15 -0700 Subject: No email from Cron Jobs Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8508@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Hi people, Until august 28th I was getting email messages every time a cron job was completed On 2 identical systems I have. This weekend this has stopped. I also noticed that my server1 has a file TTY_00000000.log with information like: 08/29/08 20:25:05: EVT#05853-08/29/08 20:25:05: 94=Patrol Read progress on PD 0 2(e1/s2) is 100.00%(6429s) 08/29/08 20:25:13: prCallback: PR completed for pd=02 My server2 does not have this file. Any ideas? Thanks, Nestor :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bacchi at rpi.edu Tue Sep 2 15:32:06 2008 From: bacchi at rpi.edu (Andrew Bacchi) Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:32:06 -0400 Subject: No email from Cron Jobs In-Reply-To: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8508@Octopus.sdcwa.org> References: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8508@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Message-ID: <48BD5C76.3000209@rpi.edu> It's odd that it happened on both servers at the same time. You can check the log file for some clues to whether the mail was sent at the proper time. /var/log/maillog Issue the 'mailq' command to see if the que is empty. If you get a list of waiting mail, restart sendmail and see if it's delivered. The problem could be caused by either cron, or sendmail. I don't know what the TTY log file is. Florez, Nestor wrote: > Hi people, > > > > Until august 28^th I was getting email messages every time a cron job > was completed > > On 2 identical systems I have. This weekend this has stopped. > > > > I also noticed that my server1 has a file TTY_00000000.log with > information like: > > 08/29/08 20:25:05: EVT#05853-08/29/08 20:25:05: 94=Patrol Read progress > on PD 0 > > 2(e1/s2) is 100.00%(6429s) > > 08/29/08 20:25:13: prCallback: PR completed for pd=02 > > > > > > My server2 does not have this file. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nestor J > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list > redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list -- veritatas simplex oratio est -Seneca Andrew Bacchi Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phone: 518.276.6415 fax: 518.276.2809 http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/ From Jeffrey.Thomas at sierra-bravo.com Tue Sep 2 15:42:29 2008 From: Jeffrey.Thomas at sierra-bravo.com (Jeffrey G Thomas) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:42:29 -0500 Subject: No email from Cron Jobs In-Reply-To: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8508@Octopus.sdcwa.org> References: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8508@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Message-ID: <200809021042.29891.Jeffrey.Thomas@sierra-bravo.com> Could this be due to an automatic update that happened to both systems at (roughly) the same time, which may have killed either the cron or the mailing system? Jeffrey From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Tue Sep 2 15:52:49 2008 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:52:49 -0700 Subject: No email from Cron Jobs In-Reply-To: <200809021042.29891.Jeffrey.Thomas@sierra-bravo.com> Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F850A@Octopus.sdcwa.org> I actually set up for updates this morning on both systems. :) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jeffrey G Thomas Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:42 AM To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: No email from Cron Jobs Could this be due to an automatic update that happened to both systems at (roughly) the same time, which may have killed either the cron or the mailing system? Jeffrey -- redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Tue Sep 2 16:03:12 2008 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:03:12 -0700 Subject: No email from Cron Jobs In-Reply-To: <48BD5C76.3000209@rpi.edu> Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F850B@Octopus.sdcwa.org> The maillog says that the mail for the cron jobs were sent. I will check with our network administrator. Thanks, Nestor :) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:32 AM To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: No email from Cron Jobs It's odd that it happened on both servers at the same time. You can check the log file for some clues to whether the mail was sent at the proper time. /var/log/maillog Issue the 'mailq' command to see if the que is empty. If you get a list of waiting mail, restart sendmail and see if it's delivered. The problem could be caused by either cron, or sendmail. I don't know what the TTY log file is. Florez, Nestor wrote: > Hi people, > > > > Until august 28^th I was getting email messages every time a cron job > was completed > > On 2 identical systems I have. This weekend this has stopped. > > > > I also noticed that my server1 has a file TTY_00000000.log with > information like: > > 08/29/08 20:25:05: EVT#05853-08/29/08 20:25:05: 94=Patrol Read progress > on PD 0 > > 2(e1/s2) is 100.00%(6429s) > > 08/29/08 20:25:13: prCallback: PR completed for pd=02 > > > > > > My server2 does not have this file. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nestor J > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list > redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list -- veritatas simplex oratio est -Seneca Andrew Bacchi Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phone: 518.276.6415 fax: 518.276.2809 http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/ -- redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list From paul.nuffer at gmail.com Tue Sep 2 18:04:19 2008 From: paul.nuffer at gmail.com (Paul Nuffer) Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:04:19 -0600 Subject: No email from Cron Jobs In-Reply-To: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8508@Octopus.sdcwa.org> References: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8508@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Message-ID: <48BD8023.4030509@gmail.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florez, Nestor wrote: > Until august 28th I was getting email messages every time a cron job was completed > On 2 identical systems I have. This weekend this has stopped. > > I also noticed that my server1 has a file TTY_00000000.log with information like: > 08/29/08 20:25:05: EVT#05853-08/29/08 20:25:05: 94=Patrol Read progress on PD 0 > 2(e1/s2) is 100.00%(6429s) > 08/29/08 20:25:13: prCallback: PR completed for pd=02 > > > My server2 does not have this file. - From a brief look around, the TTY file is generally an output of Dell's OpenManage application, usually dumped in case of hardware weirdness. The log messages you copied (again, from a search) seem to be related to a specific part of OSMA called Patrol Read. One could almost assume this is a Dell server. If this is a correct assumption, it seems normal to only see this error on one server. What would be weird is if BOTH servers had the same hardware issues reported. > > Any ideas? For basics, maybe attempt redirecting the cron job output to a file, just to see if there is anything being sent out to the mail service. Also, check to see that crond is running: `/sbin/service crond status` . The fact that both died, though, make me think it's some external problem, but those are good to eliminate from your checklist to restore your sanity :) Good luck! Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAki9gCMACgkQij6lfM48TS2cCQCeJVWdOBQYBH0mJTXgaoY+2j1T 4VIAnAm2UY2xtmB5dTIUyQs9F77KIHF2 =mbPX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Tue Sep 2 22:34:31 2008 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:34:31 -0700 Subject: No email from Cron Jobs In-Reply-To: <48BD8023.4030509@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8510@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Thanks for all the replies. I found out that the network manager set up some kind of white List to allow emails in the intranet and he forgot to mentioned it to me and the email from My cron jobs were being capture by the new software. Thanks again, Nestor :) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Paul Nuffer Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:04 AM To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: No email from Cron Jobs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florez, Nestor wrote: > Until august 28th I was getting email messages every time a cron job was completed > On 2 identical systems I have. This weekend this has stopped. > > I also noticed that my server1 has a file TTY_00000000.log with information like: > 08/29/08 20:25:05: EVT#05853-08/29/08 20:25:05: 94=Patrol Read progress on PD 0 > 2(e1/s2) is 100.00%(6429s) > 08/29/08 20:25:13: prCallback: PR completed for pd=02 > > > My server2 does not have this file. - From a brief look around, the TTY file is generally an output of Dell's OpenManage application, usually dumped in case of hardware weirdness. The log messages you copied (again, from a search) seem to be related to a specific part of OSMA called Patrol Read. One could almost assume this is a Dell server. If this is a correct assumption, it seems normal to only see this error on one server. What would be weird is if BOTH servers had the same hardware issues reported. > > Any ideas? For basics, maybe attempt redirecting the cron job output to a file, just to see if there is anything being sent out to the mail service. Also, check to see that crond is running: `/sbin/service crond status` . The fact that both died, though, make me think it's some external problem, but those are good to eliminate from your checklist to restore your sanity :) Good luck! Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAki9gCMACgkQij6lfM48TS2cCQCeJVWdOBQYBH0mJTXgaoY+2j1T 4VIAnAm2UY2xtmB5dTIUyQs9F77KIHF2 =mbPX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list From hphinizy at cisco.com Wed Sep 10 21:08:12 2008 From: hphinizy at cisco.com (Harrison Phinizy -X (hphinizy - at Cisco)) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:08:12 -0700 Subject: Cannot pvcreate mpath0 In-Reply-To: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8510@Octopus.sdcwa.org> References: <48BD8023.4030509@gmail.com> <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F8510@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Message-ID: <38C76C4CBEC69F4C9971F08D00FA099207978AF9@xmb-sjc-22b.amer.cisco.com> Getting this oddity when I try to add mpath0 as a physical volume: [server][~]$ pvcreate /dev/mapper/mpath0 Can't open /dev/mapper/mpath0 exclusively. Mounted filesystem? Here are some details: [server][~]$ pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 VG Name vg0 PV Size 819.91 GB / not usable 524.00 KB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 26237 Free PE 189 Allocated PE 26048 PV UUID wXCE2M-vvmr-5TPH-lrDT-tHDT-ecLJ-EXkm4g [server][~]$ multipath -ll mpath0 (3600c0ff0000000000a7e4a7984106400) [size=1395 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active] \_ 0:0:0:0 sda 8:0 [active][ready] \_ 1:0:0:0 sdb 8:16 [active][ready] [server][~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol01 20G 3.4G 16G 18% / /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol05 690G 101M 654G 1% /app /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 297M 28M 254M 10% /boot none 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol02 40G 1.1G 37G 3% /home /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol04 9.9G 55M 9.3G 1% /tmp /dev/mapper/vg0-lvol03 20G 157M 19G 1% /var Any thoughts? Please advise, Harison From herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com Thu Sep 11 15:33:00 2008 From: herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com (Herta Van den Eynde) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:33:00 +0200 Subject: sadc to sar Message-ID: A customer asked us for fine grained performance data, so I ran "/usr/lib/sa/sadc -F -L 10 17280 /tmp/sadc.out" and verified that the file was updated every 10 seconds. The resulting output file is 37MB. I then wanted to use sar to convert the sadc file to a sar file, but I'm having problems doing so. Using "sar -A -i 10 -f /tmp/sadc.out | head -n 20" returns: Linux 2.6.16-1.2108_FC4smp (dsrv254.belbone.be) 09/08/2008 12:03:50 PM proc/s 12:12:10 PM 2.69 01:12:11 PM 0.73 07:12:12 PM 0.81 08:12:12 PM 0.68 05:12:04 AM 1.59 06:12:14 AM 0.69 07:12:14 AM 0.75 10:12:15 AM 0.82 02:12:16 PM 0.81 03:12:16 PM 0.74 08:12:17 PM 0.78 09:12:07 PM 0.81 04:12:09 AM 1.28 05:12:09 AM 0.54 08:12:09 AM 0.64 11:12:10 AM 0.67 Average: 0.95 instead of the 10 second intervals I was expecting. Does anyone know how to extract the data in sar format in 10 second intervals? Kind regards, Herta -- "Life on Earth may be expensive, but it comes with a free ride around the Sun." From smooge at gmail.com Thu Sep 11 16:58:36 2008 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:58:36 -0600 Subject: sadc to sar In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <80d7e4090809110958i377a529bm1926f946d121cfc1@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Herta Van den Eynde wrote: > A customer asked us for fine grained performance data, so I ran > "/usr/lib/sa/sadc -F -L 10 17280 /tmp/sadc.out" and verified that the > file was updated every 10 seconds. The resulting output file is 37MB. > > I then wanted to use sar to convert the sadc file to a sar file, but > I'm having problems doing so. Using "sar -A -i 10 -f /tmp/sadc.out | > head -n 20" returns: > > Did you try it without the -i ? I got the following: 10:51:53 AM runq-sz plist-sz ldavg-1 ldavg-5 ldavg-15 10:52:01 AM 0 219 0.28 0.26 0.20 10:52:11 AM 0 219 0.24 0.25 0.19 10:52:21 AM 1 218 0.20 0.24 0.19 10:52:31 AM 1 218 0.17 0.23 0.19 10:52:41 AM 1 218 0.29 0.26 0.20 10:52:51 AM 0 218 0.25 0.25 0.19 10:53:01 AM 1 218 0.21 0.24 0.19 10:53:11 AM 0 218 0.17 0.23 0.19 10:53:21 AM 1 219 0.15 0.22 0.18 10:53:31 AM 0 219 0.20 0.23 0.19 10:53:41 AM 0 219 0.17 0.22 0.18 10:53:51 AM 0 219 0.14 0.21 0.18 10:54:01 AM 0 219 0.12 0.21 0.18 10:54:11 AM 0 219 0.10 0.20 0.18 10:54:21 AM 0 219 0.08 0.19 0.17 10:54:31 AM 0 218 0.07 0.19 0.17 10:54:41 AM 0 218 0.06 0.18 0.17 10:54:51 AM 1 218 0.05 0.17 0.17 10:55:01 AM 0 218 0.28 0.22 0.18 10:55:11 AM 0 218 0.24 0.21 0.18 Average: 0 218 0.17 0.22 0.18 with sar -A -f /tmp/sadc.out but the file was only 20 in length. > > Herta > -- > "Life on Earth may be expensive, > but it comes with a free ride around the Sun." > > -- > redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list > redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com Thu Sep 11 19:48:18 2008 From: herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com (Herta Van den Eynde) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:48:18 +0200 Subject: sadc to sar In-Reply-To: <80d7e4090809110958i377a529bm1926f946d121cfc1@mail.gmail.com> References: <80d7e4090809110958i377a529bm1926f946d121cfc1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: 2008/9/11 Stephen John Smoogen : > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Herta Van den Eynde > wrote: >> A customer asked us for fine grained performance data, so I ran >> "/usr/lib/sa/sadc -F -L 10 17280 /tmp/sadc.out" and verified that the >> file was updated every 10 seconds. The resulting output file is 37MB. >> >> I then wanted to use sar to convert the sadc file to a sar file, but >> I'm having problems doing so. Using "sar -A -i 10 -f /tmp/sadc.out | >> head -n 20" returns: >> >> > > Did you try it without the -i ? I got the following: > > 10:51:53 AM runq-sz plist-sz ldavg-1 ldavg-5 ldavg-15 > 10:52:01 AM 0 219 0.28 0.26 0.20 > 10:52:11 AM 0 219 0.24 0.25 0.19 > 10:52:21 AM 1 218 0.20 0.24 0.19 > 10:52:31 AM 1 218 0.17 0.23 0.19 > 10:52:41 AM 1 218 0.29 0.26 0.20 > 10:52:51 AM 0 218 0.25 0.25 0.19 > 10:53:01 AM 1 218 0.21 0.24 0.19 > 10:53:11 AM 0 218 0.17 0.23 0.19 > 10:53:21 AM 1 219 0.15 0.22 0.18 > 10:53:31 AM 0 219 0.20 0.23 0.19 > 10:53:41 AM 0 219 0.17 0.22 0.18 > 10:53:51 AM 0 219 0.14 0.21 0.18 > 10:54:01 AM 0 219 0.12 0.21 0.18 > 10:54:11 AM 0 219 0.10 0.20 0.18 > 10:54:21 AM 0 219 0.08 0.19 0.17 > 10:54:31 AM 0 218 0.07 0.19 0.17 > 10:54:41 AM 0 218 0.06 0.18 0.17 > 10:54:51 AM 1 218 0.05 0.17 0.17 > 10:55:01 AM 0 218 0.28 0.22 0.18 > 10:55:11 AM 0 218 0.24 0.21 0.18 > Average: 0 218 0.17 0.22 0.18 > > with sar -A -f /tmp/sadc.out > > but the file was only 20 in length. > >> >> Herta >> -- > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux > How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed > in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" > Thanks for the suggestion, Stephen. I did try that and it gives the same result. Kind regards, Herta -- "Life on Earth may be expensive, but it comes with a free ride around the Sun." From smooge at gmail.com Thu Sep 11 20:54:50 2008 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:54:50 -0600 Subject: sadc to sar In-Reply-To: References: <80d7e4090809110958i377a529bm1926f946d121cfc1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <80d7e4090809111354mb4648d3s8a3aabda081b3ed5@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Herta Van den Eynde wrote: > 2008/9/11 Stephen John Smoogen : >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Herta Van den Eynde >>> -- >> -- >> Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux >> How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed >> in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" >> > > Thanks for the suggestion, Stephen. I did try that and it gives the > same result. > > Kind regards, > > Herta > Interesting.. my RHEL-5 system does not have this... but I think I see the reason. You seem to be using an old FC4 system which may have a SAR difference from the RHEL versions. Linux 2.6.16-1.2108_FC4smp [smooge at nausicaa ~]$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 [smooge at nausicaa ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/sar sysstat-7.0.2-1.el5 I wonder if its that? -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From CHort at caed.uscourts.gov Thu Sep 11 21:13:48 2008 From: CHort at caed.uscourts.gov (CHort at caed.uscourts.gov) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:13:48 -0700 Subject: Cheree Hort/CAED/09/USCOURTS is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 09/11/2008 and will not return until 09/12/2008. 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